Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Mojo and Moaning

I'm still waiting for the materials for the Alice quilt and also for my mojo to return. Anyway, I should be doing something else than sewing, namely writing thank-you-cards for our wedding. Yes, I know ... We're VERY late! Our pictures FINALLY arrived last week, our photographer has been in and out of hospital and we had to wait quite some time for them. I bought baby pink and lime-green envelopes and small lime-green postcards to glue them on. This long and cold winter made me go for a springtime theme. I'm not sure about the lime coloured cards in retrospect, they give our faces in the black-and-white photographs a nice greenish tinge ... :-P

Also the stamps are going with the hopeful spring theme.

And look at the flowers J. got me for Valentine's! A perfect match! :-) These really cheer me up! I have to say that I'm feeling like this a lot lately:

At least it has been sunny the last couple of weeks, but still, I feel like this winter has been lasting forever! It's not all bad, though. Here are some pics I took on a walk we took to Seurasaari open-air museum last Sunday:

The bridge leading to the Seurasaari island. You can see people skiing and walking on the frozen sea.

A view from the bridge.

A typical traditional Finnish fence.

The roof of one of the houses re-built on Seurasaari.

Phone-booth.

There used to be Dutch-style windmills in 19th century rural Finland, too.

Well, Eva, seeing your "new" blog was like getting a valentine card from you. I love the new banner and I was over the moon with your photographs of Finland. Getting a new banner, lots of pictures, and even a little film clip was a real treat. Carolina

Thank you, Carolina! :-) I'm glad you like the "new look"! I got a bit tired of the old one, even though it looked nice. I wanted something a bit lighter and a personalized banner. I really should take more pics of Helsinki and post them here, I like to see where everyone else is living myself. :-) I'm glad my being fed up with winter has led to a post that cheers other up! :-) :-D